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CIGAR SUPPORT. I I No. 320,938. Patented June 30, 1885.

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CIGAR-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,938, dated June 30, 1885.

Application filed September 15, 1883.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARK O. KNOWLTON, of the city of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Cigar-Support, for the purpose of providing a desirable receptacle for a lighted cigar and a tray for the deposit of ashes that may fall or be removed from the cigar; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the construction and use of the said invention.

This invention relates to that class of cigarracks which have an ash-receptacle under the cigar-holder.

The invention consists in a novel construction and combination of a supporting back plate, an ash-receptacle on the front of the back plate at the base thereof, and cigarholders projecting from the front of the aforesaid plate above the ash-receptacle, all as hereinafter more fully described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

The annexed drawing represents a perspeclive view of my improved cigar-rack.

C denotes the back or supporting plate of the rack, said plate being provided with an eye by which to suspend the rack, as shown in the annexed drawing.

B represents an ash-receptacle in the form of a trough projecting from the front of the back plate 0, at the base thereof, and A A A represent the cigar-holders, which project from the front of the back plate 0 at a sufficient elevation above the ash-receptacle to support the cigar isolated from said receptacle, the latter serving to collect the ashes dropping from the cigar laid on theholdersAA A.

The aforesaid combined cigar-rack and ashreceptacle I prefer to form of a plate of the (No model.)

requisite size and shape stamped out of sheet metal, one end of which plate I bend over toward one side into the shape of the trough B, and in the opposite end of the plate I punch the eye by which to suspend the rack. By means of suitable dies I strike up from the central portion of the plate, and toward the same side on which the trough B is formed, the hook-shaped cigar-holders A AA. The end plates e e of the trough may be either integral portions of the aforesaid metal plate bent at right angles and soldered or otherwise secured in position, or they may consist of separate disks secured across the ends of the trough in any suitable manner.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1.The improved cigar-rack herein described, consisting of the supporting back plate 0, the ash-receptacle B, projecting from the front of the back plate at the base thereof, and the cigar-holders A A A, projecting from the front of the back plate 0 above the ash-receptacle B, substantially as described and shown.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a cigar rack formed of a plate of sheet metal bent at one end toward one side into trough shape and having an eye punched in its opposite end, plates secured across the ends of the trough, and hooks struck up from the central portion of the plate and bent toward the same side on which the trough is formed, substantially as specified and shown.

CLARK O. KNOYVLTON.

Witnesses:

H. P. SMITH, W. T. BANN. 

